Tuesday Links: Hot-Dog Tree

“With a pearl-onion garland, and parmesan snow this hot-dog tree is a holiday party must.” Credit: Lucky Peach

The Wildenstein tax-evasion trial—exploring how several family members reshuffled over $250 million worth of art to tax-free Switzerland after the death of their father, Daniel—is expected to put the spotlight on the secretive dealings of the art business. Cue Michael Jackson munching on popcorn GIF. [New York Times]

Why are celebrity profiles getting worse and worse each year? Jezebel’s Clover Hope posits that 2015’s litany of “fanboy profiles” — from Lili Anolik’s summer Elle profile on Taylor Kitsch to Ernest Baker’s dude-bro Coachella love-in with Drake with Four Pins — owes much to these publications clickbait gaming celebrities’ huge fan-bases on the social web. And it looks like 2016 is going the Interview route—Miranda July’s T Magazine Rihanna profile suggests we might see more star-meet-star navel-gazing. [Jezebel]

I agree with Vulture’s Halle Kiefer that the image of a “sweaty, long-haired, tank-top-wearing, Con Air-area” Nicolas Cage is the right one to have when thinking about his return of a stolen tyrannosaurus mask to Mongolia. [Vulture]

Related: Congolese businessman Sindika Dokolo has returned three 19th-century masks back to Angola’s Dundo Museum. The masks went missing during the country’s civil war, and ended up in Europe. Through his foundation, Dokolo finds stolen African art and then repatriates them. [The Art Newspaper]

The Venice Biennale announcements keep on coming: Susanne Pfeffer, who curated Pamela Rosenkranz’s work for the Swiss Pavilion this year, will be curating the German Pavilion in 2017. [Artforum]

All that time selecting the month’s best art essays has paid off for Ben Davis: behold, the year’s best art essays. [artnet News]

Staten Island’s St George Library Center has a “Wuseum” display for their Wu-Tang holdings. [New York Public Library]